Ebook: Aufklärung und Exzess: Epistemologie und Ästhetik des Übermäßigen im 18. Jahrhundert

Excess and abundance are phenomena that contradict the core ideal of the bourgeois Enlightenment: the demand for temperance. However, the "right measure" was by no means a transcendental given, but was the subject of critical negotiations in the European debates of the eighteenth century. The contributions in this volume look at the epistemological, social, and medial shifts in excess that took place during the age of reason.